Space OS is trying to bring back the personal computer — this time in the cloud
by David Pierce from The Verge - All Posts on (#6FEY9)
What if this was your computer's desktop? Space OS thinks it should be. | Image: Deta / David Pierce Here's how your computer should work, according to Mustafa Abdelhai, the co-founder and CEO of a startup called Deta. Instead of a big empty screen full of icons, your desktop should be an infinite canvas on which you can take notes or watch movies or run full apps just by drawing a rectangle on the screen. Instead of logging in to a bunch of cloud services over which you ultimately have no control, you should be able to download software like PC users did 20 years ago, and the stuff you download should be completely yours. All your apps should talk to each other, so you can move data between them or even use multiple apps' features simultaneously. You should be able to use AI to accomplish almost anything.
And it should all happen in a...